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POST-MATCH THREAD: Portsmouth vs Charlton Athletic - Monday 29th December 2025 - 7:45pm Kick-Off
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Can you imagine it ....... grown men crying like babies and throwing their toys out their prams when we're 5 points above the relegation zone .....SporadicAddick said:Thank fuck the internet didn’t exist when Lennie was keeping us up by the skin of our teeth year in year our in the mid to late 80s.6 -
Yes, that's the one - the team that constantly battled against relegation every year and eventually lost that battle.golfaddick said:
You mean the Lennie team that had John Humphreys, Mark Reid, Jimmy Melrose, Robert Lee, Peter Shirtliffe....(I could go on). And the Lennie team that played 4-4-2 with proper full backs, and strikers who knew where the back of the net was. And a midfield with sublime players like Paul Mortimer & Steve MacKenzie.SporadicAddick said:Thank fuck the internet didn’t exist when Lennie was keeping us up by the skin of our teeth year in year our in the mid to late 80s.1 -
We’ve been promoted via the play offs 3 times and on the first two occasions got relegated the following season , will this season be any different …..
5% Top half
45% 13th-21st
50% The big R1 -
What an absolute crock of sh*t. The result I mean.
We were, in my humble opinion, the better team for the vast majority of the game.
We lacked that bit of quality in the final third, but by and large we were the more threatening.
I said to my son as the game wore on, I hope we don't chuck this away from a set piece, as they had offered zero threat up front.
Sure enough we conceded from a corner!
We battled away in our sometimes cackhanded and inept way and got the equaliser we fully deserved at the death.
A draw that would have felt like a win. But, no, game not over and we committed the cardinal sin of not seeing out what was literally the last few seconds. Fecking unbelievable. Way to ruin my birthday Charlton.
(Although I have to say, to rub further salt in thr wound, that that was a quality finish from their man the like of which they had shown zero evidence of in the previous 97 minutes)
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We all dream of a team of Roger JohnsonSDAddick said:
Counterpoint: they're used to this and won't be scared.ct_addick said:My bigger concern is the likes of Bell, Burke and Kaminski who have had back to back relegations. Are they up for the relegation battle ?
Counterpoint to my counterpoint: They're all 0-2.2 -
MarcusH26 said:
No idea how Berry starts over him tonight.Chippycafc said:
You really have no idea? Here are a few clues for you:
Kaminski
Burke
Bell
Bree
Danny Hylton
Dan Potts
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Coventry at home wouldnt surprise me if we win this , and afterwards scratching our heads1
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Dead & buried by Good Friday, with a revival within 3 days.CharltonManor1966 said:
If he's available in January worth a cheeky bid? Might save us from the drop?ateamofcorygibbs said:I mean Jesus Christ1 -
Yes that’s the one, the one that was in a relegation fight from the start of every season, and that were eventually relegated.golfaddick said:
You mean the Lennie team that had John Humphreys, Mark Reid, Jimmy Melrose, Robert Lee, Peter Shirtliffe....(I could go on). And the Lennie team that played 4-4-2 with proper full backs, and strikers who knew where the back of the net was. And a midfield with sublime players like Paul Mortimer & Steve MacKenzie.SporadicAddick said:Thank fuck the internet didn’t exist when Lennie was keeping us up by the skin of our teeth year in year our in the mid to late 80s.1 -
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Well not the Victory we all had hoped : & dreamed of against a very poor Pompey. Hugely disappointing to be delivered a fatal blow in 98mins….todays trip to HMS Victory cancelled not even the sunken Mary Rose fills us with enthusiasm, so me and my son are beating an early retreat back from the hotel to South London, some what bemused and shaking our heads that we managed to throw away our fantastic record at Fratton park after 20yrs …So Positives and there are some ..at the 1/2 way stage, we’re 5pts clear & a game in hand from the bottom three. Sheffield Wed are gone so we just have to be better than two others to stay in this division and build upwards. We clearly need to recruit in Jan window, I believe that Nathan Jones will get us through these stormy seas and steady the ship, he is not mortally wounded.Football is a strange beast who knows what will happen on New Years Day it’s not a foregone concussion that Coventry will beat us and stranger things have happened…The Millwall hoodoo has to end …maybe this is the year we do a smash and grab at the Den and finally get a victory. So we have Half a season to win and draw enough games to sort this current malaise out, and stay in the championship and build…the team will need Fortress Valley and for our excellent and vocal away support to carry us through to the end of the season…COYA’s7 -
Let’s hope that’s not code for being sold next week.KettsJohn said:NJ suggests Ramsay injury is hamstring and "a couple of weeks".0 -
I’ve seen it referenced a few times on X but that bloody black kit as well. For starters, personally I think it’s absolutely horrible and I don’t know why it got rolled out against Wrexham (we could’ve played in the blue away kit), Norwich (we could’ve played in our home or away kit). There’s an argument it can be used last night but it just reminds me of the last few years under Adkins etc. These things are preference and taste but I can’t stand it. We’ve had 3 crap defeats in it now as well with those games. I’d love to see it binned off in 20266
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Agree. I think we have needed a proper leader on the pitch all season.sam3110 said:I don't get people trying to blame Gillesphey or Kaminski for the goal, the blame lies either on all of the players as a collective, or it lays on the people in charge at the time, so Jones, his assistants, and Lloyd Jones as captain on the pitch at the time, because the complete lack of focus and attention at the end of the game was farcical2 -
Kamimski needs dropping as does Campbell and I don’t mean as an impact player I mean for a decent amount of time to teach him a lesson and the same goes for Leaburn and Bree, they are absolutely useless at the moment and massively costing us in vital areas. Spend correctly in January or we are down by April if we are lucky it really is as simple as that.7
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Bell should probably do better for both goal, as good as he has been for us.
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I know I have a natural bias but the ref was a bit too helpful to them. Yes, we are fragile but we have to stick with Nathan and the lads. We will come through it that way. The ref played 5 minutes when it should have been 9. There were some stopages in added time but not more than a minute and a half tops. It was like he didn't give us enough time, but when we equalised he gave more time. That goal was last gasp and should have been the end of it. Look he is not a cheat but he was a homer. There were long stoppages in normal time and he played 5 mins and he played that again for the added time. Ridiculous.8
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SporadicAddick said:
Yes that’s the one, the one that was in a relegation fight from the start of every season, and that were eventually relegated.golfaddick said:
You mean the Lennie team that had John Humphreys, Mark Reid, Jimmy Melrose, Robert Lee, Peter Shirtliffe....(I could go on). And the Lennie team that played 4-4-2 with proper full backs, and strikers who knew where the back of the net was. And a midfield with sublime players like Paul Mortimer & Steve MacKenzie.SporadicAddick said:Thank fuck the internet didn’t exist when Lennie was keeping us up by the skin of our teeth year in year our in the mid to late 80s.And as much as I love Morts, there were times when he was so laid back he was virtually horizontal, so those fans who keep going on about Leaburn or Campbell being lazy would be apopleptic watching him play. Pretty sure it took Steve MacKenzie a fair while to get up to speed too - while he wasn't Peter Garland dimensions he was definitely approaching Ralph Milne proportions when he signed, and in my mind's eye I can still see him having a shot that went out for a throw down at the Holmesdale End at Selhurst.4 -
Great post Mr Bexhill. I have been reluctant to post after last night but you have put how I feel oerfectly.BexhillAddick said:Too wound up and upset to sleep. I am getting very worried that we won't turn this around. I know we have had injuries but I am sure the constant changes to team and formation doesn't help. It has been proven so many times that the teams who keep a settled side and use the least amount of players do better. Last season NJs strategy was to keep tinkering until he got lucky with a team and formation. He needs to find a formula very quickly otherwise we are in deep s**t.
As the season goes on it is quite clear our league 1 players, old and new, haven't stepped up and the lack of quality is showing too often now. We brought in JRC who had championship experience and he has hardy played him. We bought Apter but NJ doesn't use him because he doesn't fit our formation. It is all very worrying.
As for getting players in in January. If people think we can just go and buy a few championship quality players then they are deluded. Even if we could find them at the right price, would they want to play for a struggling team. At best we will be left with a few misfits/ injury prone players from mid table teams. I really hope I am wrong. Our salvation may lay in a couple of decent loans but we all know what NJ thinks about that.
At the end of the day this is what supporting our wonderful club is all about but boy is it difficult at times... And not good for your health!
PS I have my ticket for Leicester away... What could possibly go wrong!!!
We are NOT giving up on the team or Nathan Jones but unless he starts to play the best players to their strengths we will not survive this.
I also agree with your comments about new players coming in. It is a tough road ahead but can we pull through? Possibly - but don't expect 2 or 3 top Champ players to waltz in here and make the difference nor Godden being a saviour. It will take guts and I have to hope that if nothing else Nathan Jones is about gutsy horrible survivalist football and hope the players are still up for the long hard haul ahead.0 -
I now know how the Blackburn Rovers fans felt, after Brad had equalised in injury time for them to lose the game.11
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Spare a thought for me, I live down on the South Coast and have Radio Solent and constant reruns to listen too… deep joy 😫1
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Brilliant post, glad you rewrote it!jimmymelrose said:PWR
As if I wasn't pissed off enough I spent fifteen minutes writing a long post on another thread and then when I clicked on 'Post Comment' it got lost because the thread had been closed.
So I'm going to write it again:
I'm writing my comments as if the match stopped at about 90 minutes at 1-0. Portsmouth are absolutely the worst team I've seen this season in this division. They are worse than Norwich (who I watched on TV) and they are worse than Sheff Weds (who I saw at The Valley). They are worse than us too.
Portsmouth could hardly put a good passing move together until a nice interchange around our box at about 85-86 minute mark. Prior to that they looked scrappy and blasted every chance they got high and wide.
Meanwhile we looked decent for the first twenty minutes. We played the ball around nicely and looked to be building up to something. This is because we have better players than them, I really mean it. They haven't got the quality of Bell, the guile and speed of TC, and I believe Jones to be a better defender than any of theirs. Rankin-Costello also looked like a brand new signing from Planet -well maybe not Planet Heaven - but Planet 'wow, where did he come from' - or let's just call it 'Planet Nice One.' I was pleased but also annoyed because we needed to push the boat out - to go and prove that we're better than them. We play no-risk football and as in life generally if you don't take any risks you don't get anywhere. If we'd done so, I don't believe Portsmouth would have taken advantage of any gaps we'd have left further back because I don't think thay have anything dangerous enough to threaten our still decent defense.
Another shout out here: Kelman is absolute quality but our staid, defense first, careful approach ends up in a hoofball and he is wasted, absolutely wasted in this team. It's an absolute travesty. Leaburn did well today but it's no way to play football. With a different approach Kelman would be a 20 goal a season striker.
The game goes on - and on - and on. In fact watching Charlton is like waiting a thousand years and hoping the a meteor hits between a chosen set of goalposts on a chosen planet. We play the most boring crap, we really do. If we were playing Coventry City (or in a few weeks Chelsea) then I could accept it but - and it goes on - more and more of the same stuff - repeating what never works - and then doing the same again - asking decent players to play beneath themselves. They are not allowed to be the best version of themselves, quite the opposite. We have the players to have won this game. And still the same crap goes on.
Then we wait until the 86th minute to inject some more energy with the subs. Why leave it so late? What do we do in their position, winning 1-0 with only 5 minutes to go? We fall down, waste time, take the ball to the edges of the pitch, ask the goalie to pretend he's hurt his head. So why would we expect them to do any differently? Why wait so late to take a bigger risk to get something from the game?
Watching Charlton at the moment is like watching a dear friend or a pet animal scambling to get out of a hole and they can't hear you shouting 'there's a rope ladder on the other side. You can get out easily if you use that.' But the friend or pet continues to scramble blindly, trying to grab the rocks and tree roots, and keeps falling back down into the hole.
Nethertheless I'm not going to call for anyone's head or slag any particular player off like many do on forums, or worse, at the ground. I may not like it but I've said it time and time again: 'if it keeps us in the division then so be it. I'm willing to put up with this s**t if it keeps us up'. We are in the real thick of the battle now and we need to stick together however hard it may be. The management, players and fans are one team together, and even when it doesn't look like it, they are giving 100% and are doing what they believe to be best. We may not agree with certain aspects but we have to get behind them.
Just take a breath, calm down, and move onto the next match. If we lose that, do the same again. Just continue to create a healthy atmosphere for the team and pray (in a non-literal sense) that they find their way to turn it around. If you really can't control yourself to assure doing that then don't go to the match. Go to the cinema, do the gardening or something else instead. The last thing we need to add to the woes of this team is idiots making a negative atmosphere. As I said I'm PWR yet but I bet people are doing this already on here. Just, for pity's sake, don't do it at our matches or it will be like removing the rope ladder that they still have a chance of finding.6 -
In terms of stuffEugenesAxe said:
hope you're enjoying our journeyFumbluff said:If only we’d brought the best versions of ourselves to the game, we probably would’ve nicked it…
Someone should mention this to the players2 -
What was clear to me last night was this squad played with fight and togetherness. It needs strengthening with some quality added (returning and new), but other than a tepid Norwich performance, I cannot fault their effort and commitment in any way.
We need to stay with it. We need to encourage in every game, this could all come down to just one point.Last night was heartbreaking due to the manner, I still feel distraught this morning, but it needs mentally parking and moving on.41 -
I’m still convinced that there are a handful of teams worse than us in this division (Pompey included) but we’ve quickly got to get the mental strength back that served us so well in the second half of last term.4
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Lose the battle win the war. Don’t lose faith in Nathan Jones18
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Where are the goals coming from with this current team? Until we spend big money on a 20 goal a season striker, we will need to keep relying on others to chip in now and then, which is not good enough.nelsonsleftfoot said:We have enough good players to stay up and a manager that will make sure we do.4 -
No one wants L1 football, but if it happens it happens. I suspect with the current ownership we’ll be in with a strong chance of bouncing back, and I’ll be there for it.WestStandPete said:I know NJ was happy that we were ahead of the overall plan when we went up but if we go back down then we will seriously be set back by several years in my opinion as I personally can’t sit through another season of league one football & I’m sure I’m not alone. We need to throw the kitchen sink at staying up otherwise this club will be leaking a lot more money than the owners possibly might not want to keep stumping up if we go down. Relegation will literally define the long term future of our club I’m hoping that the owners realise we are now fighting for the future of the club & spend accordingly. We aren’t sunk yet but tossing away a hard earned point is something that just can’t happen. I thought injury time goals that we regularly used to concede was in the past as we were too professional now. Maybe not. I can’t think of many situations where other teams would have done the same after equalising so late so that’s a real worry.Hope it won’t come to that though.0 -
I would definitely recall Kanu, half a season on loan has done him the world of good he is a natural finisher, yes it is a big step up but until you try him you will never know. We have absolutely nothing to lose in recalling him.9
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stoppage time started nearly 30 seconds late they chewed up a load more and we celebrated our goal chewing up more there was no problem with the timing .... there will be a minimum of 5 mins additional timeMuttleyCAFC said:I know I have a natural bias but the ref was a bit too helpful to them. Yes, we are fragile but we have to stick with Nathan and the lads. We will come through it that way. The ref played 5 minutes when it should have been 9. There were some stopages in added time but not more than a minute and a half tops. It was like he didn't give us enough time, but when we equalised he gave more time. That goal was last gasp and should have been the end of it. Look he is not a cheat but he was a homer. There were long stoppages in normal time and he played 5 mins and he played that again for the added time. Ridiculous.2
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